Recent content by Michael P in NJ

Apparently it comes from the legal profession. I had thought it was from a poem about baseball, where the author said, "Time is of the essence. The players stay the same age, but the man in the crowd gets older every year."

Ted Kennedy is still alive. Ronald Reagan is dead. And Reaganism is a rotting, stinking corpse that America buried last November 4. With Kennedyism, as the man himself says, "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

The debate was won by the liberals last November 4. The question of whether to end the current system was decided that day. The only thing left to debate is how to fix it. The people spoke 70 million strong: Conservatism doesn't work.

Bingo! What was it Senator Obama said in his acceptance speech at the Convention? The conservatives' message to people who lose their jobs, their health insurance, any form of security is, "Tough luck, you're on your own!" And he said, "America, we are better than that!" Senator Obama was...

Some people are willing to pay more for United Parcel Service or Federal Express. Some people can't, and the government provides them with a viable, affordable option. Some people are willing to pay tens, hundreds, of thousands of dollars for health care. Some people can't, and, at present, the...

Riefenstahl worked for the Nazis. Ann Coulter is far closer than anyone in the "mainstream" media. Except that I saw an interview of Riefenstahl at age 92, about twice the age Coulter is now, and Riefenstahl looked better.

1. "Socialism!" (Or its variants "Communism!" and "Marxism!") 2. "Birth certificate!" 3. "Muslim!" 4. "He's gonna take away the guns I cling to!" 5. "He's black! And his wife is ugly!" (The hell she is.) 6. "We need real conservatives! Bush and McCain were liberals!" These are ranked, in...

With Romney, yes, because Romney is nearly as much of an ignoramus as she is. With Huckabee, no. Whatever his flaws, and there's plenty, he's an intelligent man who would take her apart.

It wasn't the crime crackdown alone. Giuliani -- whatever his faults, and they were legion -- also literally cleaned up the City. Despite having a hundred reasons to hate his guts (and he certainly had guts to hate), I always believed that Giuliani loved his City. By contrast, Bloomberg...

Well, since the event you'd be going to will NOT actually have an effect on whether the nation rises or falls, or slavery remains or is abolished, and thus the "Confederate" side isn't a morally bankrupt bunch of racist bastards... Talk to the people running it, and see which side treats you...

A "Yes" would suggest that the culture war is still going on. It isn't. It's over. The Liberals aren't winning: We've won.

No, it's more like the Seven Dwarfs. Glenn Beck is Dopey. Bill O'Reilly is Grumpy. Mike Huckabee could be Doc, he might be a Doctor of Divinity. Geraldo Rivera is Sneezy, and you can guess why. Greta Van Susteren is Sleepy, at least she makes me feel sleepy. Compared to some of these guys...

Oh my God! You just said Jimmy Carter was better at creating jobs than Ronald Reagan was! Blasphemer! Blaaaasphemerrrrrrrr! As Jack Nicholson would say, they can't handle the truth! Excluding the current economic crisis, which the Republicans caused, is like asking, "And other than that, Mrs...

Oh my God! You just said Jimmy Carter was better at creating jobs than Ronald Reagan was! Blasphemer! Blaaaasphemerrrrrrrr! As Jack Nicholson would say, they can't handle the truth! Excluding the current economic crisis, which the Republicans caused, is like asking, "And other than that, Mrs...

Well, let's see: When work on Mount Rushmore began, George Washington had been dead for 130 years; Thomas Jefferson, 110, Abraham Lincoln, 65; and Theodore Roosevelt, a little more than 10. I think we're going to need a second mountain, because Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy are ahead...